In 2007, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrates its anniversary. Fifty years ago, Academician Mikhail A. Lavrentiev and the "founding fathers" who came to Siberia with him - a group of outstanding Russian scientists - created a unique structure of the commonwealth of sciences. A world-class research center was built almost from scratch in the taiga near Novosibirsk. Just a few years after the foundations of the first research institutes were laid, the brilliant discoveries of Siberian scientists became widely known in the world scientific community. Soon the unique "Lavrentiev triangle" was launched, where a multidisciplinary approach to scientific research, integration of science and education, and rapid implementation of scientific achievements in production were put at the forefront. Archeology also became part of the community of sciences that developed in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk. At its origins in the Siberian branch was an outstanding scientist and organizer of science Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov, who came at the request of M. A. Lavrentiev from Leningrad. Over the past years, the team of archaeologists of the Siberian Branch has established itself as one of the leading ones in the country and in the world scientific community, both in terms of the significance of outstanding discoveries and the level of organization of scientific research. The formation of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography in the system of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (until 1991 - the Academy of Sciences (AS) of the USSR) is closely connected with the history of the development of academic humanities in Siberia. The first step in this direction was the creation at the end of 1958 of a Permanent Commission attached to the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which formally assigned departmental academic status to humanitarians. Later, the Permanent Commission was transformed into the industrial Hist ... Read more